Dec 12 2011
Last Thuesday, Mark Drake, Senior Product Manager and I, delivered a good presentation during UKOUG in Birmingham about how to use your database, via XMLDB functionality, as a file server. The presentation demonstrated as well how you could extent the “standaard” file server (aka your database) functionality with features like, WebDAV driven ACL Security and …
Nov 21 2011
Since a long time, the database has had some versioning capabilities, long before features like “Edition Based Redefinition” in Oracle 11gR2 appeared. This versioning, via XMLDB functionality, is based on its XDB Repository access to the database. The XDB Repository is a file/folder metaphor that acts as a file server. You can enable this functionality …
Jun 15 2011
For all those to see and learn what you can do when combining the power of Oracle XMLDB and Oracle APEX an alternative APEX XFILES application is now available for download via http://xace.sourceforge.net. It is based on the combined efforts of Mark Drake and Carl Backstrom to convert the XMLDB XFILES demo application towards APEX. …
May 19 2011
Roel Hartman and me are currently very busy with our Kaleidoscope 2011 presentation “XFiles, the APEX Version: The Truth is in There…“. During this presentation, we will demonstrate the awesome possibilities you can create when you combine the APEX and XMLDB functionality of the APEX database environment. And as you probably also know, two “no …
Sep 13 2010
No, no this isn’t another DBFS post but a more simple and direct way of achieving the same Just had a funny discussion with Roel Hartman regarding how to trick the Tomcat APEX 4 setup in believing that the virtual XFILES directory in the database was actually available on disk of the local server. This …
Jan 17 2010
For my and your convenience, I have updated my “XML Content” page so it is a little bit easier to find the XML posts. There weren’t that many typical XML posts although I think the list has been added with another 20 post links. 2009 was a year with al lot of economic pressure (therefore …
Nov 26 2009
The XFiles for Apex “Early Adapter” 0.1. release, is available for download. In principle its the same stuff I got from Mark Drake and posted about before, but now also with the APEX SQL workspace import script as well. I have to start somewhere and I shouldn’t let you wait too long playing around with …
Nov 23 2009
The biggest problem the APEX application has, regarding XML DB interaction, is that it doesn’t understand / support (yet) typical XML DB structures like the datatype / operator “XMLType”. To make APEX capable to support these structures some coding has to be done transforming an XMLtype value into other datatypes like CLOB or a varchar2. …
Nov 15 2009
Its free. Its cool. You need them for the APEX XFILES demo application. As far a as I know now, you need two supporting PL/SQL packages to make the APEX XFILES application work: xdbpm.zip xdbutilities.zip The origins of those PL/SQL packages, etc, are supporting code used by the XMLDB Development team themselves. More info, demo’s …
Nov 08 2009
Had my adventures today. Most of the packages are compile and the XDB utility packages are in place (will come back on those in a later post). Apparently as said before, Mark has added some extra new functionality “Application Security” for use with APEX. This almost locked me out today after bringing into place all …
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